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Sue Townsend Quotes

Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: April 2, 1946 - April 10, 2014

Topics

Failure I Am Diet Years Yes Kidney

Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.

Change Me Opinions Film Working

I've heard people on panels say, 'You must have a Web site. You need to tweet. Repeat the title of your book constantly,' and I just want to say, 'Shut up. Everything you're saying is wrong.' People will know instantly if your only motivation for tweeting is to sell books.

Maureen Johnson

People Book Saying Motivation You

If Congress continues to sit on its hands, and the drug companies continue to stash cash in their stockings, Americans will be forever bound in the Jacob Marley-like chains of high prices.

Hands Congress Chains Will High Sit

More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

You Know Understand More Where Fine

A calling is the place where your gifts, abilities, desires, and feelings of worth all meet. When you follow your calling, you feel at home, at peace - you feel as though you're where you're meant to be.

Home Peace Feel Worth You Feelings

When I was a kid, I had to fight for everything.

Fight Kid Everything Had

Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder, than an Indian prince travelling with all the ceremonial which his rank requires.

Gun Better Back Hand Shoulder Stick

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

Douglas Coupland

Lottery Desperation Tickets

One bit of advice I can give people is to remember that anything worthwhile takes a long time.

Time People Advice Remember Long

When I write for myself, I think about myself and draw from my own experience.

Myself Experience Think My Own Write

For all your long-term investments, such as retirement accounts that you won't touch for at least ten years, you need a mix of stocks and bonds. Stocks offer the best shot at inflation-beating gains. But stocks don't always go up. That's where bonds come into play: They have less upside potential, but they also do not pack the same risk.

Best Potential Retirement You Play

I applaud President Obama's decision to begin a partial withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan. However, I believe that we must go further and have a full withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops.

Susan Bysiewicz

Decision Believe Go I Believe Begin

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